Press Statement

MFWA’s Lawyers issue Ultimatum to ECOWAS Commission Over Detained Gambian Journalist

Solicitors of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) have given the President of the ECOWAS Commission a fifteen-day ultimatum to compel the government of President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia to comply with the order of the Community Court and release detained journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh.

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Colonel Ndure Cham Granted Refuge In Germany

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

Unimpeachable sources nestled within the corridors of state power in Banjul say erstwhile Gambian Army Chief of Defense Staff, Colonel Ndure Cham, the alleged mastermind of the abortive March 21, 2006 coup in the West African State, has been granted refugee status in Germany. According to our unassailable sources, the high profile military officer may have transitioned to Germany early July following numerous attempts by the Jammeh government to have Senegal's Octogenarian Head of state Abdoulaye Wade extradite him.

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President Jammeh Orders Immediate Dissolution of Gambia’s Islamic Council Executive

By Njie Khakatarr, State House

Unassailable reports at State House reveal that Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has ordered the immediate dissolution of the Supreme Islamic Council Executive. At an emergency meeting summoned at State House on Tuesday August 5, 2008 and attended by the current leadership of the Council, the Secretary of State for Local Government, Lands and Religious

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Observer’s Editorials from Fantasyland

 By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

As I recuperate from a surgery for an ailment that back home could have easily sent me to the early graveyard, I began to ponder what I might have missed in the home news. My condition, I can assure our readership, had nothing to do with that world-renowned buffoon, Yahya Jammeh’s claim to recently acquired “supernatural black magic” powers. If in due course I feel that there is a compelling public interest and a need to know on the ground of health education, I will write a full account of my experiences and ordeal of my surgery.

Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor 

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Adventures in The Gambia, A Marconi Engineer Retells Pre-1981 Coup Tale

By CLIVE WARNER, Monterrey Mexico

I arrived in The Gambia in 1980, probably in November, because the weather was sunny and dry, and it was before Christmas. (I’d have to dig up an old passport to be certain.) We checked in to a hotel on the strip, the African Village. I was delighted by my room, which looked out over the Atlantic with the beach directly below. It seemed to us that we were living in an idyll, but getting paid for it at the same time.

Radio Gambia engineers @ Bonto station, 1980-81

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A Quadrilogy of President

BY TIJAN NIMAGA, Bronx, New York

In 1980, independent African countries watched and listened to Robert Mugabe with fascination, wonderment, joy and patriotism as he delivered his first presidential speech on the BBC. During the colonial days, Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia was ruled by a predominantly white aristocratic government, which brought more wealth to the early white settlers than the ordinary Zimbabweans relegated as NATIVES.

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Powerful US Senator, Durbin, Blasts Gambia’s Human Rights

In what could be characterized as a welcome, albeit belated development, one of the most powerful voices in the United States Senate, Illinois’ Senior Senator Richard (Dick) J. Durbin has blasted Gambian president Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorial regime for its for blatant abuse of civil and human rights. In remarks in the United States Senate floor, the Deputy Senate Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee disclosed to his Senate colleagues the authoritarian nature of Gambian Head of State Yahya Jammeh’s government.

Senator Dick Durbin, US Senate

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July 25, 2008

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

Senator Obama speaks to over 200,0000 people (AP Photo)

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As Supt. Sanyang’s Case Gathers Momentum, Yahya Jammeh’s Criminal Web Crashes,

Over D40M Stolen

Interior Minister Sonko, Ex-NIA Chiefs, Others Named

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In-Chief

The on-going legal saga involving police Superintendent Manlafi Sanyang an errant cyclist turned presidential wheeler-dealer, continues to raise eyebrows among Gambians and every court sitting has sent shock waves with reverberations of epic proportions.  Some months ago, after we broke news of Superintendent Sanyang’s arrest with erstwhile State House presidential guard Lieutenant Bakary Camara...

Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko

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As Jammeh Regime Celebrates Disaster, Opposition UDP Alerts World

United Democratic Party (UDP)

C/O P. O. Box 500

Bronx, NY 10453

udp_nyc@yahoo.com

July 22^nd, 2008

Statement issued by the (UDP) on the July 22^nd celebrations:

Gambian People, the international Community and all Democratic and Human Rights Organizations worldwide are hereby called upon to condemn in the strongest terms the (APRC) Government for celebrating the July 22 1994 Coup D’etat, the day some junior undisciplined, Non Commissioned officers of The Gambia National Army led by Yahya Jammeh swept away the legitimate and constitutionally elected Government of the Gambian people.

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